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Season 3 - Episode 88 - Managing the state of ourselves · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey, everybody. Good morning from the chicken
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  coop. So today I want to talk to you
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  about the art of managing your state, a phrase that my children
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  are not necessarily a fan of, but they learned it anyway.
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  What does managing your state mean?
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  Well, it means that many components make up our state.
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  It's our our, our words, our emotions, if you will, permeate
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  from us. So the energy we're putting off,
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  it's how you're conducting yourself physiologically.
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  Are you moving? Are you moving fast?
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  Are you moving slow? Are you in an angry state?
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  All of these different components kind of come up how
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  your tone is showing up out of your when you're speaking, are
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  you listening or are you just like, not listening at all?
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  You're just like, I'm going to ignore this whole entire thing.
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  Your state is everything about you.
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  So we'll often say that, you know, the only thing that we can
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  control is our self. That's it.
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  We don't. There's nothing else that we can
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  control, but we can control our ourselves.
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  And that is one of the hardest things to do is to control
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  yourself. But I like to refer to this as
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  managing your state, because it really is true.
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  You are the manager here. Nobody else can get in and do it
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  for you. Even if you think people can,
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  they're forcing you to do it. But eventually you are the one
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  that surrenders or you are the one who fights back.
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  So state management is the key to you going out in the world
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  and successfully navigating during the day and not having
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  other people push your buttons. Because if you're managing your
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  state, you should be able to go out and fulfil what you have
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  intended to fulfil during the day.
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  Now, a part of this I refer to as sensory acuity.
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  So sensory acuity means I'm using all of my senses to bring
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  information to me, not just one of my senses to bring
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  information to me. And this is important because
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  all of our senses are meant to be used like this.
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  So you have to rely on not just sight, but you have to rely on
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  your sound. You have to rely on your smell,
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  you have to rely on touch feeling.
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  You have to give yourself the scope of all of it.
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  So like right now, I can tell you there is a big amount of
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  energy coming from the chicken coop, as you can all hear.
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  And I could sit here and I could ignore it, but I'm going to use
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  it as part of this because it just amped up and it's all about
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  state management. This is all going on because
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  again, someone is in a box and someone wants to get in that box
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  to lay an egg. What's funny is, as you heard me
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  say before, there are eight boxes.
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  So one of my Spanish hens wants to get into a box and someones
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  in there and now she's getting everybody riled up about the
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  fact that that box is being used.
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  Others don't even want to use that box, but she's causing
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  she's stirring the pot and she is not managing her own state.
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  She's angry because someones in that box and she's in the face
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  and now all of a sudden she's putting off that energy.
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  All these other hands that are responding are not even in the
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  coop. They're outside of it.
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  And this is such a great metaphor.
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  And it just happened to fall into my lap right this moment
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  because this is what people do. They get riled up about things
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  that aren't even, you know, concerning them in the moment.
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  Why do these other chickens getting all riled up because of
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  her energy and she's not managing her state.
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  She could easily choose another box.
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  All the other boxes are open except the one that she wants,
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  and she will not go to one of the other seven boxes.
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  So is that reasonable? Well, you know, in chicken world
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  this happens all the time. But in human world, we have to
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  ask ourselves, is this reasonable?
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  No, it's not there. There's a very easy way around
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  this. If she was managing her state,
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  she could pick a different box. But she's not managing her
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  state. She's going to be in that other
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  chicken's face until that chicken decides to leave, and
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  then she can have the box, which it sounds like That's what's
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  happening right now. She screamed in her face until
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  somebody else left. And then she could get in that
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  box. So I noticed when she quieted
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  down, everybody quieted down. It's fascinating how this works,
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  but energy is everything and it permeates nature in every single
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  way. So when we're talking about
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  this, managing your state, you have to look at this and say,
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  OK, what am I bringing to the table for myself, and am I using
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  all of my senses to understand it?
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  Not just my sound or my sight, but all of them?
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  Am I taking it all in? Am I using everything so that I
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  can really have an artful response to this, as opposed to
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  just flying off the handle, living by whatever's going on
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  around me and going from there? Because that's what's happened
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  with the chickens. They just respond to whatever's
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  going on around them and they have no clue.
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  They have no clue why they got upset.
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  They just know they got upset and then that therefore they
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  have to squawk and be part of it, but for no reason.
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  And you don't want to be like that because that's not being
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  artful or thoughtful. All that's doing is living in
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  response, which we've talked about before as opposed, you
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  know, I mean living in reaction rather than response.
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  It's just going off in a different direction.
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  So what's important right now is to remember sensory acuity gives
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  you the ability to add to this OK in multiple ways with all of
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  your senses. And managing your state means
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  you're choosing and you're thoughtfully coming up with how
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  you want to show up and not just living in reaction.
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  So hopefully this helps you today to some food for thought
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  about yourself as you go off into the world and I will see
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  you guys tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.